My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

Is it just me, or does everyone else hate books with movie-actor's faces on them?

The first time I read Fight Club it had Brad Pitt on it, and the whole time I was imagining Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden and it really couldn't get it out of my head. I want to imagine and read the characters the authors wrote, not the actors portraying them.

Plus it looks cheap and "Hey, I liked the movie so much that I bought the book."

magneticmushroom:My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

magneticmushroom:My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

Still have my Silver Jubilee set, though they're a lot more battered than these ones. I think they're a striking design, and the Darrell K. Sweet illustrations are pretty nice, even though the early Hildebrandt paintings are better.

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

A: nice find subbyB: now *THIS* is how folks need to merchandise things. Great product display, esp the mini football to be the eye of Sauron ( spoiler alert ) Sauron was not yet just an eye in the Hobbit.C: It is too tall, and that is my only complaint.Sure, you have no product in the back, but maintaining that display is going to be a nightmare, and the gods help a young kids or drunkeded person that hits it- congrats! about half are no longer in pristine condition.Why yes, I do these kind of displays for a living, but with liquor

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

In the books, the eye is generally metaphorical, although it verges on being taken literally in Frodo's visions or sometimes as shorthand for Sauron and the power of Mordor. The movies just chose to make him literally an eye, presumably to give a shapeless arch-villain something to look like on film.

In the books, the eye is generally metaphorical, although it verges on being taken literally in Frodo's visions or sometimes as shorthand for Sauron and the power of Mordor. The movies just chose to make him literally an eye, presumably to give a shapeless arch-villain something to look like on film.

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

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I see you have the same set I do

i can't believe anyone still has these around. my set's bindings fell apart years ago, TTT during the first read

HBK:Is it just me, or does everyone else hate books with movie-actor's faces on them?

The first time I read Fight Club it had Brad Pitt on it, and the whole time I was imagining Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden and it really couldn't get it out of my head. I want to imagine and read the characters the authors wrote, not the actors portraying them.

Plus it looks cheap and "Hey, I liked the movie so much that I bought the book."

Yep, definitely not a fan. I have, at times, shelled out more just to get the non-actor's face version of a book.

rynthetyn:HBK: Is it just me, or does everyone else hate books with movie-actor's faces on them?

The first time I read Fight Club it had Brad Pitt on it, and the whole time I was imagining Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden and it really couldn't get it out of my head. I want to imagine and read the characters the authors wrote, not the actors portraying them.

Plus it looks cheap and "Hey, I liked the movie so much that I bought the book."

Yep, definitely not a fan. I have, at times, shelled out more just to get the non-actor's face version of a book.

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

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I see you have the same set I do

I'm actually re-reading my copy of The Hobbit (same cover you showed) that I bought back in 8th grade. For so long, that chubby bastard was my image of Bilbo Baggins. Now I'm trying to picture Martin Freeman, but it's hard.

alienated:A: nice find subbyB: now *THIS* is how folks need to merchandise things. Great product display, esp the mini football to be the eye of Sauron ( spoiler alert ) Sauron was not yet just an eye in the Hobbit.C: It is too tall, and that is my only complaint.Sure, you have no product in the back, but maintaining that display is going to be a nightmare, and the gods help a young kids or drunkeded person that hits it- congrats! about half are no longer in pristine condition.Why yes, I do these kind of displays for a living, but with liquor

/only chance i get to use Barbie dolls anymore

Well the display Is empty boxes since there is no DVD release yet, and if I were doing it it would all be hot glued together with a strong framework. Yea I did quite a bit of merchandise design back in the day./And never got to use Barbie dolls : (

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

zymote:Even though it means going full nerd, I have to point out that Barad-Dur wasn't in The Hobbit.

Thank you. Interesting note: one of the most central aspects of LOTR didn't even exist yet when Tolkien wrote the Hobbit. in the original, Gollum simply allows Bilbo to walk away with the ring, like "oh well, I got bested and lost my ring, oh darn." After writing LOTR, Tolkien had to go back and re-write that scene so that Gollum was angry and demented after losing the ring because of the power it possessed over its bearer.

neuroflare:magneticmushroom: My Hobbit paperback is missing and my LotR books are starting to look pretty ratty. I might have to grab this new printing for X-Mas as it looks a lot better than my early 90's ones with the paintings of "Obese Jew-Fro Bilbo", "Surprise Buttsecks Legolas", and "Math Teacher Aragorn."

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I see you have the same set I do

I have that set, but all of my covers are black. Need a new set, as it's falling apart.

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I see you have the same set I do

I remember that set. My brother and I shared those until we got our own hardcover editions. This one specifically. (And I have the hardcover Hobbit too)

I must say that I loved your description of the artwork of the paperbacks. I think my brother may still have that set. I picked up the Harper Collins editions when the movies came out in the early 2000s because I liked the black covers and needed some paperbacks to abuse while keeping my hardcover in near pristine condition (only once read).Here's a reference to that set.

/found a first American edition of the Silmarillion at a used book sale for $2//nerds.jpg etc etc